Springfield will be home to a new ‘super-size’ adventure playground for children

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One of the dimensions we thought that could be really great to differentiate this from other places was a strong emphasis on children’s play, and access to nature and adventure.

“Part of it was great public spaces, and access to parkland and great shopping and those sorts of things,” he said.

“One of the dimensions we thought that could be really great to differentiate this from other places was a strong emphasis on children’s play, and access to nature and adventure.”

Mr Tuma said while the playground had an international flavour, the team also wanted to “ground it in something that was locally relevant”.

“We did some work with a German group, and we came up with an extremely exciting, and extremely large, cable net structure that goes over the top of the creek. Children can climb through this elevated adventure landscape and then use slippery slides and tree trunks and all sorts of things to climb up and down either side,” he said.

“So you get this totally immersive, supersized children’s play experience.”

The playground is set to be an early piece of the $6 billion City Centre North project, which will have about 10,000 apartments, commercial and retail developed over 15 years close to the Springfield Central train station.